Les Ballons Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBA CDDC EFFE GHHG| Against these turbid turquoise skies | A |
| The light and luminous balloons | B |
| Dip and drift like satin moons | B |
| Drift like silken butterflies | A |
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| Reel with every windy gust | C |
| Rise and reel like dancing girls | D |
| Float like strange transparent pearls | D |
| Fall and float like silver dust | C |
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| Now to the low leaves they cling | E |
| Each with coy fantastic pose | F |
| Each a petal of a rose | F |
| Straining at a gossamer string | E |
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| Then to the tall trees they climb | G |
| Like thin globes of amethyst | H |
| Wandering opals keeping tryst | H |
| With the rubies of the lime | G |
Oscar Wilde
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